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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Lata in Solomon Islands

Posted by admin on July 24, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -10.8868S, 166.1595WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Lata in Solomon Islands on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 109.85 km (68 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 166.1595° East, latitude -10.8868° South, depth = 109.85 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000quk3. Unique identifier: us6000quk3. Global time and date of event 24/07/25 / 2025-07-24 06:34:54 / July 24, 2025 @ 6:34 am UTC/GMT. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:34:54 / 6:34 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Solomon Islands (c. 559 000 pop). Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Lata (c. 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lata.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 43 km ESE of Lata, Solomon Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.1595° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.8868° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43 km ESE of Lata, Solomon Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-24 06:34:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-24 06:52:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 432 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 111 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.645 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000quk3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000quk3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000quk3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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